The exhibition will remain on display at the Rothko Museum in Latvia until February 8, 2026.
The following photos document the successful opening of “Tensions and Transitions: Navigating the Boundaries of Being,” which took place on December 5, 2025, at the Rothko Museum.
Curated by Tatjana Cernova (Rothko Museum) and Nour Nouri (Pashmin Art Consortia)
The exhibition brings together eight international artists—Zhang Dawo, Peter Backhaus, Horst Wagner, Fant Wenger, Reinhard Hanke, Holger Dempwolff, Sonia Parchet, and Anna van den Hövel—whose works deal with emotional, psychological, and spiritual transitions within the contemporary human experience. Through a range of artistic approaches, from abstraction and expressionism to spiritually influenced practices, the exhibition reflects on the shifting boundaries between individual and collective identity.
Tensions and Transitions focuses on processes of transformation and the tension between the personal and the universal. The participating artists address themes such as alienation, the search for meaning, and human connection, each using their own visual language. From Zhang Dawo’s calligraphic abstraction to Sonia Parchet’s mandala-based compositions to Peter Backhaus’ archetypal expressionism, the exhibition unfolds as a multi-layered artistic dialogue.